2007 Windermere Real Estate Rowing Classic

April 14 - 15, 2007

Redwood Shores, CA, USA

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The Best Came West

The crews are gone after two days of great racing in moderate to
challenging conditions. Congratulations to all crews. And a "Job
Well Done" to host Stanford Crew, sponsor Windermere Real Estate,
and the regatta committee.

Here, you will find exclusive video interviews
with team coaches, results with split times,
and regatta photos
(more photos will be posted this week).

Drawing nearly 1,000 athletes, the Windermere Real Estate Rowing
Classic has quickly become one of the premier collegiate rowing events,
drawing top crews from throughout the United States. Participating
teams include, Stanford University, George Washington, Notre Dame,
Central Florida, Princeton, Oregon State, Loyola, Washington, Louisville,
Tennessee, Virginia, Trinity College, California, Wisconsin, UCLA,
Washington State, Gonzaga, Santa Clara, Sonoma State and UC Davis.
Athletes will compete in two days of Henley style racing, a one-on-one
or a two-boat race used for competition at the famous Henley Royal
Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England.

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The Course

Redwood Shores is approximately 20 miles south of San Francisco and
is located next to San Francisco Bay. In this two-lane race course,
no lane is favored by wind or currents. Thus a race result here is
often a true indication of the crew's abilities.

The first 1100 m of the course is narrow and sheltered from the wind.
After that, the crews pass under a bridge (upper right, in the photo
below) and the course widens significantly, exposing crews to afternoon
cross winds. If you watch the race video, watch here for the crew
that can holds the truer course.

About JAMCO Race Bulletins

Unofficial Times — JAMCO takes its own finishing times
and those are the first finishing times to appear on JAMCO's real
time race result pages. Those pages are marked "unofficial"
because the Regatta Committee is also taking finishing times, and
its times are the "official" times. The Regatta Committee
provides JAMCO with its "official" times after the races
are over, and JAMCO then enters the "official" times on
its reports. Therefore, there may be a considerable delay in replacing
the "unofficial" times with "official" times,
but the order of finish should not change."

Color Coding — Real time movements by crews during each
500 meter interval are highlighted by different colors. Gold (yellow)
crews are closing on the leader in the current 500. Silver (light
blue) crews are closing on the second place crew, but falling further
behind the leader. Bronze (orange) crews are closing on the third
place crew, but falling further behind the leader and the second place
crews. White crews are falling further behind all three leading crews.
Quite often, when a crew turns gold, it takes the lead in the next
500.

Printing Tips — When printing JAMCO race bulletins,
you may get better results if you set your browser to print background
colors and images. If you are using MS Internet Explorer, go to Tools
-> Internet Options -> Advanced and scroll down to where you
see "Printing - Print background colors and images."

Automatic Refresh — During the race, JAMCO updates race
results every 500m. JAMCO web pages showing real-time results are
designed to automatically reload or refresh every 30 seconds. If you
are viewing a race in progress and the page does not automatically
reload, please press the "Refresh" or "Reload"
button on your browser.

A Big Thank You

JAMCO is completely run by volunteers, for the benefit of the rowing
community.

This weekend we had volunteers from Stanford, Cal, Louisville, Notre
Dame, and UCLA crews. Spotters on the race course heroically spend
hours in the sun, wind, rain, and cold to bring you accurate split
times and results. Other volunteers run the timing computers and prepare
the video and live stats for posting to the web site.